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FANTASTIC Pulp Covers Mystery Sci-Fi Dracula 1930s
Just because they are wonderful ... a handful of pulp and paperback covers, circa 1930s, found on the web. click any image to enlargevasta@earthlink.net
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Paris MOULIN ROUGE Programs 1920s ~ 1930s
Images from souvenir and commemorative programs for the legendary Parisian music-hall, the Moulin Rouge. In it's earliest days, an important destination for Parisian denizens of the night, a mecca for...
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Artist PETER DRIBEN ~ American Pin-Ups Part Two
Robert Harrison's publications started in 1939 picking up where the great American pulps (Stolen Sweets, Spicy Stories, Gay Paree, etc.) left off with their seductive pin-up covers, many created by the...
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BIG & BOUNCY Magazine ~ 1960s Busty Babes
Here's an illusive digest sized magazine from the early 1960s, Big & Bouncy, devoted to busty babes published by World Wide News Corp. Short lived, maybe two issues published, filled with "Big,...
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PAPERBACK Covers: '60s Sleeze Straight Gay Lesbian
A selection from my archives of straight, gay and lesbian, early 1960s, paperback sleaze featuring illustrated covers by Gene Bilbrew, Eric Stanton and Ed Alexander. click any image to...
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1950s GIRLIE PIX: Cheesecake Busty Babes Nude
Sexy 1950s babes posed in and out of lingerie: bras, panties, garter belts and stockings. From a recent purchase, 4 x 5" glossy photos, sold in sets via ads in girlie magazines and adult bookstores. A...
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EURO-TRIP Photos Books Postcards May + June Shows
It's spring and time to head back to Europe this year for an extended trip including Paris, Verona and Berlin. I will be traveling from May 14th to June 10th. Email me if you'll be at any of the shows...
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PARIS May ~ June 2015
I'm back in NYC, corporeally and, finally cerebrally, after an extensive European trip and a couple of weeks of catching up on sleep and everything else that goes unattended while traveling. It was a...
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VERONA May'15 Collectibles Fair Postcards Stamps
The next stop after a week in Paris was Veronafils, the collectibles fair in the city of Verona in northern Italy, about half way between Venice and Milano. I love this fair for two reasons: the...
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PARIS: Lumiere Exhibition @ The Grand Palais
Back to Paris for a rendezvous with my wife Susan at the marvelous Lumiere exhibition at the Grand Palais. The Lumiere brothers are larger than life contributors to the worlds of the cinema and...
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BERLIN Books & Postcards = Friends & Colleagues
Berlin for me is synonymous with art, creativity, a vibrant gallery scene, book stores and lots of street art, graffiti, paste-ups and stencils. First stop: visit Anna and Christian, the amazing,...
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PARIS Outdoor Fair: San Sulpice Antiquarian Books
After Berlin, back to Paris for two outdoor fairs taking place during the beautiful spring weather. Starting late in the week, the San Sulpice Antiquarian Book Fair and running simultaneously that same...
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PARIS Bievre Photo Fair 2015
After Berlin, back to Paris for two outdoor fairs. On Saturday I was off to Bievre, a small town about 30 minutes outside Paris, for the fabled camera and image show. It was another beautiful day...
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PARIS La Galcante Vintage Magazines & Newspapers
In the never ending stories posted on the web from around the world of bookstores closing there remains in Paris a refuge, a "non-book store", filled with magazines, newspapers, photographs and...
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WHAT NERVE!! Hairy Who @ Matthew Marks Gallery
I rarely post my enthusiasm for a local gallery show, however the exhibition at the Matthew Marks Gallery in Chelsea is a must see! What Nerve! Alternative Figures in American Art featuring the Chicago...
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French NUDISM Vivre d'Abord Nudist Magazine 1950s
Vivre d'Abord! (Live First) an exceptional, large format French nudist magazine published in the 1940s and '50s. Beautifully designed and printed throughout in gravure, the earliest issues printed in...
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GARTER BELTS & STOCKINGS 1960s Adult Magazines
The adult magazines genre of the 1960s was dominated by the Los Angeles based powerhouse Parliament publications, famous for their Elmer Batters driven content and titles such as Tip Top and The Nylon...
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Serge Jacques FRENCH NUDES '60s Garters Hose + Pubes
Here are some of my favorite French models, circa the late 1960s, showing all without ever removing their garter belts and stockings! For lovers of the genre and the period, the seductiveness of the...
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Art et Photographie FEMALE NUDES Paris 1950s Brassai
The exceptional sepia tones female nudes of Art et Photographie magazine presented a new, post-war view of the nude, seen in close-up with portions of the figure bleeding off the edges of the page. A...
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GRUNDWORTH Photo Fetishist: Derriere Lover 1920s
The Parisian world of clandestine, erotic photography has many twists and turns and more than a few "men of mystery" working behind the camera. Among their ranks is the photographer known only as...
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